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		<title>Malicious Tweets Not So Common</title>
		<link>http://unsafebits.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/malicious-tweets-not-so-common/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are plenty of warnings to users of the popular Twitter service to take care in following links, the dangerous reputation of the social network is somewhat undeserved, finds one researcher. In a study of 1.3 million URLs culled from the public feed of Twitter updates, security researcher Julien Sobrier of Zscaler finds that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=217&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reports Soar as Zeus&#8217; Popularity Grows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unsafebits.com/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Zeus, or Zbot, trojan started spreading as early as 2006, but only recently has the malicious do-it-yourself software run rampant among mortals&#8217; PCs, according to data released by Microsoft. In an analysis posted on Thursday, the software giant found that the growth of Zeus &#8212; which the company refers to as Zbot &#8212; began [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=208&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye (mostly), SecurityFocus</title>
		<link>http://unsafebits.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/goodbye-mostly-securityfocus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Symantec made the announcement today that SecurityFocus will be essentially be phased out, with only Bugtraq and the vulnerability database accessible through the current site. Much of the content will move over to Symantec Connect, a site that acts as a portal between the company and the security community. Here is the announcement: Beginning March [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=204&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Troyak Takedown Stings Zeus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late Tuesday night, more than 90 servers controlling Zeus botnets suddenly disappeared from the Internet. The outage came after a group of security professionals worked to de-peer Troyak, a known rogue network hub that provides connectivity to at least six Internet service providers hosting botnet controllers. The disappearance of the Zeus command-and-control servers was discovered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=194&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China-Related Cyber Attacks on Major Firms (&#8220;Aurora&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://unsafebits.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/china-related-cyber-attacks-on-major-firms-aurora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unsafebits.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In mid-December, Google discovered that attackers coming from China had breached its network. The attacks were “highly sophisticated and targeted,” and the attackers stole intellectual property. Evidence from a server used as a data drop showed that at least 20 &#8212; and possibly as many as 33 &#8212; other companies were attacked. In Google&#8217;s case, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=142&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Tailored Attacks and Chinese Trojans</title>
		<link>http://unsafebits.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/of-tailored-attacks-and-chinese-trojans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 25, 2009, CYBERsitter CEO Brian Milburn received an e-mail message that appeared to come from his director of sales and marketing. The e-mail subject announced, &#8220;This is the Jinhui Computer Systems Engineering Inc&#8217;s report about China&#8217;s Green Dam Youth Escort screening software,&#8221; and contained a link to a zip file hosted online. Opening [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=131&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China-Related Cyber Attacks on Major Firms, Day 3</title>
		<link>http://unsafebits.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/china-related-cyber-attacks-on-major-firms-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unsafebits.com/?p=124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to a reader&#8217;s suggestion, I&#8217;ve decided to keep the original post &#8220;as is&#8221; and update a new post as new information becomes available. If anyone has any information or comments on how better to present this information, feel free to contact me. This is an archived page. The updated page is here. Events In mid-December, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=124&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China-Related Cyber Attacks on Major Firms, Day 2</title>
		<link>http://unsafebits.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/latest-info-on-cyber-attacks-on-u-s-firms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unsafebits.com/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to a reader&#8217;s suggestion, I&#8217;ve decided to keep the original post &#8220;as is&#8221; and update a new post as new information becomes available. This way I will keep the original as a stake in the virtual ground marking what was known initially, and this organic post will instead change as new information becomes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=113&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cyberattacks on Major Firms: What is Known?</title>
		<link>http://unsafebits.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/cyberattacks-on-major-firms-what-is-known/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I thought I would try something a bit new. I wanted to create a common place for collecting the various details of the attacks against major U.S. firms disclosed on January 12. Most of the information appears to come from Google or iDefense, a security firm owned by VeriSign, so anyone with more information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=87&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banking in a Time of Cybercrime</title>
		<link>http://unsafebits.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/banking-in-a-time-of-cybercrime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Lemos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any small business, educational organization or local government needs to be wary these days. In the past year, cybercriminals have increasingly targeted these less-than-security-savvy groups with malicious software tailored to facilitate bank fraud. In one case, which I documented for an article in Technology Review, online thieves targeted the accountant at a small California firm [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=unsafebits.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11019543&amp;post=84&amp;subd=unsafebits&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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